Symantec System Center - move/remove & transfer duties

Working with a customer who has Business Version 10.1 AV running on his Windows 2000 network. It is managed by System Center from an old Windows 2000 server which is about to be retired. System center is already installed and funtioning on a newer Windows 2003 server, but seems to be secondary to the setup on the older server.

What do we have to do to get all of the functionality moved off of the old server and transferred to the new server before we retire it?

Pete...Thanks, but I'm not sure I either made myself clear or understood your response. We already have a second Version 10 System Center running on a different computer and it sees the Server Group, sub groups and computers within each subgroup. There is only one Server Group and now only two computers running the System Center.

What we want to do is remove from service the primary/original System Center which was used to create/define the Server Group, its subgroups and manage the clients (pushing clients and policies, etc). We wish to transfer to the new System Center running on the new computer all of the functionality which had been associated with the old System Center computer. Which I assume also means the files and folders which are used to push clients to computers, set policy and manage updates.

We have to retire the older computer as it is beginning to show signs of failure.

Mohankumar....Thanks for your reply. I'm having a bit of a problem following and understanding your first three steps. Can you provide some more details? You mentioned "folders" in step 1 but didn't detail them. How does one "break replication"? How does one add an additional System Center to the database?

Sorry for the "newbie" type questions, but this is the first time I've run into this situation.....GK

MichaelD50...Thanks for the reply. The client has no desire to move from Version 10 to SEP versions 11 or 12. He just wants to move the System Manager (version 10.1) from the old Window 2000 server to a new Windows 2003 server so he can retire the old Windows 2000 server.

I have tried to install the System Manager (ver 10.1) on the new server, but it seems to be flawed. When I open up the System manager and server group on the Windows 2003 Server, all the clients are marked "Disabled - Time out of sync" ( or something like that).

Old Windows 2000 server is working fine, but the client has worries that it is starting to fail.